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- HyperCam 1.50 Readme.txt file
-
- HyperCam captures the action from your Windows 95 or NT screen and saves
- it to AVI (Audio-Video Interleaved) movie file. Your machine may run in
- any color mode. Sound from your system microphone is also recorded.
-
- For best performance please set your machine in 8 bit color mode (256
- colors). We found out that in this configuration HyperCam can capture up
- to 10 frames per second of 640x480 pictures on Pentium 133 machine. You
- may capture more if your capture area is smaller, or you have a faster
- machine. In 16 bit color mode it can do about 5 fps of 320x240 frames on
- the same machine. For 4 bit graphics MS Video does not provide a suitable
- compressor, so the frames are written uncompressed. This is also slow and
- produces large AVI files.
-
- Installation:
- -------------
- To install HyperCam, please run SETUP.EXE program form the ZIP file that
- you downloaded, or the floppy disk that you have received.
-
- Program Status:
- ---------------
- HyperCam is a shareware product with the single user license price of
- US $30. While unregistered, it will place a small "Unregistered HyperCam"
- sign in the corner of the AVI files that you capture. To register your
- copy of HyperCam, please start the program, click on the "License" tab,
- then click on "Purchase License..." button. After we receive your payment,
- we will send you a license (key) by email or paper mail, which you may
- enter into the software to prevent HyperCam from placing the "Unregistered"
- mark on the new movies that you record. Note: the "Unregistered" mark can
- not be removed from movies that you recorded before registering your
- copy of HyperCam.
-
- Distribution:
- -------------
- Distribution is permitted provided you follow these instructions: You are
- free to make copies of the distribution archive (HYPERCAM.ZIP) and pass it
- along to others for their evaluation provided that no modifications or
- additions are made to the software, its documentation, or any associated
- files, and it is not bundled in a distribution of any other software.
-
- Usage:
- ------
- Select the area you want to capture, then select Start Rec. button or
- press a hot key. You may press the same hot key to finish. There is also
- a "Pause/Resume" hot key and button. You may pan (move the recorded area)
- by holding e.g. Shift key and moving the mouse. Please click on each tab
- in the HyperCam dialog and try to figure out what to do, or read the
- detailed help file.
-
- Updates:
- --------
- For newer versions of HyperCam please check Hyperionics WEB at:
-
- http://www.hyperionics.com/
-
- or email the author, Greg Kochaniak, at gregko@hyperionics.com
-
- Thank you for using HyperCam! Please do email me any comments and
- suggestions for improvement you may have!
-
- Greg Kochaniak
- Hyperionics
- 3146 Chestnut St.
- Murrysville, PA 15668, USA
- Fax: (650) 617-3721
-
-
- Release History:
- ================
-
- 1999.07.05 Version 1.50
- New features:
- The ability to record mouse click sounds. You can enable this
- option from "Other Options" tab, by setting the mouse click
- volume to anything higher than 0.
- The sounds itself are in small WAV files in HyperCam directory,
- named with two numbers (sound sample and sampling rate), followed
- by letter "d" for down mouse click, or "u" for mouse up. You
- can replace these files with your own versions, if you don't
- like ours, but they must be short and in their exact format.
- Fixes:
- If Windows is shut down while HyperCam is still recording, or
- if it runs out of disk space, the AVI file will be closed
- correctly.
-
- 1999.05.17 Version 1.40.00
- HyperCam window now offers a new tab labeled "Other Options".
- Currently it contains check boxes to enable/disable cursor
- recording, and - new feature - add starbursts when mouse
- buttons are clicks. The duration, size and color of these
- starbursts can be also controlled on this tab.
-
- Added new button, "Configure this Codec", to display the native
- configuration dialog of the selected codec (provided by Codec
- DLL itself).
-
- HyperCam now remembers the last codec used, when exited and
- restarted.
-
- Added the "Record Sound" check box also to the "Sound" tab, to
- avoid confusion created previously, when this box was only
- available on "AVI File" tab.
-
- Recording and Paused mode are now visually distinguished by
- the thickness of the blinking frame, surrounding the recorded
- area. Thicker frame means recording, thin (1 pixel) frame
- means paused.
-
- Fixed bug where sound would go out of sync with video after
- several minutes, if the frame rate value did not divide 100
- without a remainder.
-
-
- 1998.09.03 Version 1.34.00
- Using Alt-Keyboard shortcuts in certain situations would hang
- the program, fixed.
-
- 1998.07.09 Version 1.33.00
- AVI file frame size must be a multiple of 4, or else strange
- things happen in many players. Corrected the size entry functions
- to round width and height up or down to a nearest multiple of 4.
- Automation method: CaptureSingeFrame() did not work, fixed.
-
- 1998.06.02 Version 1.32.00
- Prepared HyperCam for registrations with NetSales.
- Added "Delete License" button on the "License" tab.
- Fixed some small bugs.
-
- 1998.06.02 Version 1.31.00
- Changed the visual feedback of different HyperCam states -
- e.g. upon pause of recording, it will no longer display big
- X across the recorded area, which sometimes was causing problems.
- Instead, the HyperCam window and icon title is changed from
- HyperCam - Recording to HyperCam - Paused, and the icon shape
- in title bar and task bar button is changed. What if you hide
- completely HyperCam window when recording? Well, it appears
- in the task bar if you pause recording, and hides again if
- you resume.
-
- 1998.02.20 Version 1.30.00
- Added automation support to control HyperCam from OLE Automation
- client programs, e.g. from Visual Basic. Added sound recording
- at 8000 samples per second. Added "Show Flashing Rectangle..."
- button to the "Screen Area" tab.
-
- 1997.12.04 Version 1.20.04 Released
- First version compiled also for DEC Alpha/NT machines. Minor
- fixes in license check and added -nox option (see help file).
-
- 1997.09.16 Version 1.20.02 Released
- Minor fixes - help file page displayed on More... button press
- of the About box was incorrect.
- HyperCam license was re-saved on each startup causing minor
- (barely, if at all) noticable delay.
-
- 1997.09.09 Version 1.20.01 Released
- HyperCam would crash on "start recording" on Windows 95.
- Fixed.
-
- 1997.09.08 Version 1.20.00 Released
- Added single frame shot hot key, that operates in "Pause"
- mode. Some minor bug fixes as well.
-
- 1997.05.08 Version 1.19 Released
- Fixed two problems: starting recording in 256 color mode
- would produce sometimes invalid AVI files (when, upon minimizing
- HyperCam window for recording, another window with a different
- palette would come to front and realize its palette). The other
- problem: selecting AVI file name with Browse button would not
- always work correctly.
-
- 1997.04.17 Version 1.18 Released
- One more problem found and fixed - starting recording in
- "paused" mode (F3 hot key) would cause problems. Fixed.
-
- 1997.04.15 Version 1.17 Released
- Fixed a problem in licenses. Fixed also a bug where HyperCam
- would crash after recording more than 2 minuts of video on
- some Windows 95 systems. Fixed problem with saving video
- compression quality setting.
-
- 1997.04.10 Version 1.16 Released
- Added a number of command line options to auto-start recording
- and override the defaults. See the help file for more.
- Increased the sound buffers for high quality sound recording.
- Fixed incorrect values of sound sampling rate displayed on
- the Sound tab.
-
- 1997.04.03 Version 1.15 Released
- I'm sorry, rel. 1.14 was not right. It recorded the sound with
- wrong format information, and you could not switch between
- high and low quality sound at all. It's all fixed now, honest!
- Added a separate Sound tab, with even more sound parameters
- to select from. Also (hopefully) fixed a rare problem when
- HyperCam would produce invalid AVI files.
-
- 1997.04.01 Version 1.14 Released
- Added a selection to set high quality sound when recording.
- It's a check-box on AVI File tab. If checked on, HyperCam
- records 16 bit sound samples at a rate of 22050 per second.
- If checked off, 8 bit samples are recorded at 11025 samples
- per second.
-
- 1997.03.10 Version 1.13 Released
- Added a separate setting for playback frame rate on AVI File
- tab, which may be now set different from recording rate. However,
- if the playback is different from recording rate, you can not
- record sound.
- Separated resources into a separate CamRes.dll for easier
- translation into foreign languages.
-
- 1997.01.17 Version 1.12 Released
- Fixed: custom shapes of Windows 95 cursors were not captured
- correctly - they were always dispalyed as standard cursors.
- Controls inside HyperCam dialog are now disabled while recording
- a movie.
- You can now use Tab key to move the focus between all controls
- of HyperCam dialog.
- Fixed GDI resource leak on Windows 95 (could prevent you from
- recording very long clips, or many short clips without exiting
- HyperCam).
-
- 1997.01.08 Version 1.11 Released
- Fixed a problem on Hebrew version of Windows 95 and on NT 3.51.
-
- 1997.01.08 Version 1.10 Released
- This is the first full release of HyperCam. It was preceeded by a
- number of "beta test" versions numbered 1.0 Beta nn.
-
-